Beta Hydroxybutyrate

Test Code

3235960096

Alias/See Also

Hydroxybuterate

CPT Codes
82010

Preferred Specimen

Plasma collected in a green-top lithium heparin plasma separator tube (PST)

Minimum Volume

1 mL

Other Acceptable Specimens

Serum collected in a gold-top serum separator tube (SST)
Serum collected in a red-top no additive no-gel tube and transferred to a plastic vial

Instructions

SST/PST: Spin and do not separate
Red-top no-gel tube: Spin and separate serum into a plastic transport vial

Transport Temperature

Refrigerated

Specimen Stability

Refrigerated: 7 days

Reject Criteria (Eg, hemolysis? Lipemia? Thaw/Other?)

Gross hemolysis

Performing Laboratory
Guthrie Clinic Lab
Corning Hospital Lab
Troy Hospital Lab
GMG Laboratory at Towanda

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